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| 1413 | England's King Henry IV died. |
| 1727 | Sir Isaac Newton - physicist, mathematician and astronomer - died in London. |
| 1815 | Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris, beginning his Hundred Days rule. |
| 1816 | The Supreme Court affirmed its right to review state court decisions. |
| 1828 | Playwright Henrik Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway. |
| 1852 | Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel about slavery, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," was published. |
| 1896 | U.S. Marines landed in Nicaragua in the wake of a revolution. |
| 1969 | Rock musician John Lennon of the Beatles married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar. |
| 1976 | Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was convicted of armed robbery for her part in a San Francisco bank holdup. |
| 1987 | The Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS patients. |
| 1990 | Namibia became an independent nation, marking the end of 75 years of South African rule. |
| 1993 | An Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in Warrington, England, killing two boys, aged 12 and 3. |
| 1995 | A doomsday cult released sarin nerve gas in five Tokyo subway stations, killing 12 people and injuring more than 5,500.
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| 1996 | A jury in Los Angeles convicted Erik and Lyle Menendez of first-degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents. (They are serving life without parole.) |
| 1997 | Liggett Group settled 22 state lawsuits by admitting the industry markets cigarettes to teenagers and agreeing to warn on every pack that smoking is addictive. |
| 2004 | The U.S. military charged six soldiers with abusing inmates at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. |
